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From: znmeb@fpssun.fps.com (Ed Borasky)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: FORTH as a language for Professional programmers
Message-ID: <8406@znmeb.fps.com>
Date: 30 Jun 90 00:39:46 GMT
Reply-To: znmeb@fps.com (Ed Borasky)
Organization: FPS Computing, Beaverton,OR
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If you use the Bookstore Shelf Inch Test as a measure of how widely used a
language is, you will discover (at least around here) that the ONLY language
in WIDE use today by professional programmers is "C".  I know "C" sucks wet
dog fur as compared to FORTH, but if you want to communicate with your peers
in a COMPUTER language, you had (gerund deleted) well better do it in "C"!!!

Pascal, FORTRAN, FORTH, ASSEMBLER, ADA, MODULA are ALL better languages than
C.  So how come so many more Bookstore Shelf Inches are devoted to "C"??